Biodiversity loss in Finland can be halted and turned to biodiversity richness. We have solutions, knowledge and skills, but not enough funding.
Priodiversity LIFE project mobilizes the growth of nature funding in Finland and has established special forces for this: The Biodiversity Funding Hub.

Biodiversity Funding Hub

• searches for new public and private investors to stop biodiversity loss in Finland
• strengthens the position of the biodiversity goals in EU funding programs
• aims at getting private funding to join nature work
• prepares projects supporting the Priodiversity LIFE
• increases co-operation by organizing networking events
• offers up-to-date information about new funding possibilities

The Complementary Funding Strategy

The Complementary Funding Strategy is the first plan in Finland to increase and enhance the use of nature funding in Finland. The strategy aims to combine public and private funding and to promote increased and more effective funding for nature projects and nature management work.

See the strategy here: The Complementary Funding Strategy, Mobilising Nature Funding (pdf 2 Mb, in Finnish with English summary).

The Complementary Funding Strategy event in Turku, 28th Oct 2025

The strategy will be presented in the Priodiversity LIFE project’s networking event in Turku, on Tuesday 28th October 2025. The event is open for all interested and/or working among the field of nature. See the program and sign up by 13th Oct here (ely-keskus.fi, in Finnish).

Contact info:

Tuula Kurikka
Specialist, chairperson of the Biodiversity Funding Hub
tuula.kurikka@gov.fi
029 525 0043

Jenny Gustafsson
Coordinator of the Biodiversity Funding Hub
jenny.gustafsson@ely-keskus.fi
029 5022 072